{"id":40648,"date":"2023-09-19T17:39:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T20:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/?p=40648"},"modified":"2023-09-25T17:47:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T20:47:07","slug":"ecuador-nature-reserve-will-take-years-to-recover-after-oil-exit-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/radar\/ecuador-nature-reserve-will-take-years-to-recover-after-oil-exit-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador nature reserve will take years to recover after oil exit-minister"},"content":{"rendered":"

REUTERS
\nSeptember 19, 2023
\nBy\u00a0<\/span>Alexandra Valencia<\/a><\/p>\n

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QUITO, Sept 19 (Reuters) – Flora and fauna affected by oil production in Ecuador’s Yasuni Amazon reserve will take many years to recover, Environment Minister Jose Davalos said on Tuesday, raising concerns that a rushed closure of extractive operations would lead to environmental damage.<\/p>\n

Ecuador is preparing to shut down block 43-ITT, which is operated by state-owned Petroecuador, after a majority of Ecuadoreans voted to close the project in August.<\/p>\n

The government of outgoing President Guillermo Lasso, whose replacement will be elected on Oct. 15, is preparing a plan to close the block – which produces about 58,000 barrels per day (bpd) – for the country’s next leader to implement.<\/p>\n

That plan will not guarantee that the area surrounding the block will return to its natural state in the short term, Davalos said.<\/p>\n

\u00abMany, many years will pass before the trees reach their proper height, the ecosystem is restored and animals return,\u00bb Davalos said in an interview with Reuters.<\/p>\n

While oil wells have been closed before, Ecuador has no experience in abandoning an entire block of this size, which includes three fields and about 230 operating wells, he said.<\/p>\n

Petroecuador has one year to suspend its operations, which will see Ecuador’s crude output drop by 12% and cost the country some $13.8 billion over the next two decades, according to official data.<\/p>\n

Abandoning the block could cost close to $500 million, according to Petroecuador.<\/p>\n

Environmentalists and some communities nearby insist that prohibiting future oil operations and other extractive industries is the only way to take care of nature and curb climate change.<\/p>\n

While some groups have demanded the immediate cessation of operations at 43-ITT, Davalos said an orderly closure was necessary.<\/p>\n

Leaving abandoned infrastructure like a road could serve as \u00abthe gateway … for illegal logging,\u00bb Davalos said, adding it could also lead to \u00abillegal and indiscriminate hunting\u00bb of wildlife.<\/p>\n

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Reporting by Alexandra Valencia; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama Writing by Oliver Griffin<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tomado de: https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/environment\/ecuador-nature-reserve-will-take-years-recover-after-oil-exit-minister-2023-09-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

QUITO, Sept 19 (Reuters) – Flora and fauna affected by oil production in Ecuador’s Yasuni Amazon reserve will take many years to recover, Environment Minister Jose Davalos said on Tuesday, raising concerns that a rushed closure of extractive operations would lead to environmental damage.<\/p>\n

Ecuador is preparing to shut down block 43-ITT, which is operated by state-owned Petroecuador, after a majority of Ecuadoreans voted to close the project in August.<\/p>\n

The government of outgoing President Guillermo Lasso, whose replacement will be elected on Oct. 15, is preparing a plan to close the block – which produces about 58,000 barrels per day (bpd) – for the country’s next leader to implement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":40649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-radar","category-2","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40652,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40648\/revisions\/40652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}